Richard J. Powell (MFA, Howard University; Ph.D., Yale University) is the John Spencer Bassett Professor of Art & Art History at Duke University. He is the author of Homecoming: The Art and Life of William H. Johnson, Black Art: A Cultural History, Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black Portraiture and Going There: Black Visual Satire. Powell has also curated numerous art exhibitions, most notably Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance, To Conserve A Legacy: American Art at Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist. From 2007 until 2010, Powell was Editor-in-Chief of The Art Bulletin.
